Improvement in fare-boxes



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I Fare-Boxes. No. 143,360, Patented September30,1873.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL H. LITTLE; of Rosemon'd, Christian county, Illinois, have invented an Improvement in Fare-Boxes for Street-Railway Cars, of which the following is a specification:

This invention consists in the combination of a hanging door that is swung back in depositing the ticket, a tri-armed lever operated by the door and connected to two tilting shelves, (by which the ticket is detained in its course to the locked receptacle,) and a lever arranged to disconnect the other operative parts from the lower tilting or dumping shelf at the will of the driver, so that the tickets may be allowed to remain upon this shelf as long as may be desired by the driver.

Figure 1 is a perspective view, showing the rear side of the box and the operating mechanism, the parts being shown in the position of rest. The connecting-rod between the triarmed lever and the lower dumping-shelf is shown disengaged from the latter in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the box longitudinal to the car.

A is the case, having a nearly rectangular form, and having a window, a, at the front side, and one, a, at the rear side. B is the door, which is made transparent by the insertion of a pane of glass, and which is hingedat its upper side to the case, and swung inward by the hand to disclose the ticketorifice 0 when depositing a ticket. The ticket-orifice O is in the horizontal floor of the upper chamber of the case, said orifice in a part, D, of this floor that is formed of an inturned flange of the inner side of the case; the rest of this floor consisting of a glass plate, E, so as to allow the passage of light to the parts beneath. F is an inclined glass plate, down which the ticket slides after passing through the orifice G. The slide F carries the descending ticket to the front side of the box or case, where it falls upon the upturned portion 9 of the dumping shelf G, and rests upon the horizontal portion g of said shelf until the door B is again allowed to swing outward, when the part 9 is inclined so that the ticket slips off it. The ticket drops from the tilting shelf G upon the upwardly-inclined portion h of the tilting shelf H, and rests upon the horizontal part h of this shelf, and when the shelf H is next tilted the ticket drops into the locked receptacle I, from which it may be taken only by the party holding the key of the same. h is the heel of the shelf, extending out in line with thepart h, and having a downturned flange at the outer end. This part h acts to close the passage into the receptacle, which would otherwise occur when the door B was swung inward, and the shaft H tilted down.

I will now describe the operatingmechanism: From one side of the doorHB extends a stud or pin, 1), which passes through a curved slot, J, in the side of the case, and works in a slot, k, in the arm K of the tri-armed lever K L M, fulcrumed at l. Extending from the arm L is a rod, N, whose other end engages a lug, n, extending from the tilting shelf Gr through a slot in the side of the case. The arrangement is such that the opening of the door B places the part g of the shelf in a horizontal position, so as to retain the ticket until the door B again swings outward. The main objects of the shelf G are to close any available passage for the abstraction of tickets when the orifice O is open, and to allow an additional View of the ticket to that had when it is upon the lower dumping-shelf, on which it is generally inverted in position, the opposite sides being seen on the two shelves. lProm the end of the arm M descends a rod, 0, Whose lower end, 0, is bent inward at right angles into a straight hook, which engages in a hole, 12, in the lugP, that extends from the shelf Hthrough a slot in the side of the case. The rod 0 passes through one end of the lever B, the other end of the lever being in reach of the car-driver, so that by a simple movement of the lever he can connect or disconnect the hook 0 from the lug P, so that the shelf H may be tilted with each movement of the door B, (when the connection is made,) or left atrest during the movement of the door B and shelf G, (when the hook o is disconnected from the lug P.) This arrangement gives to both passengers and driver an opportunity to examine all tickets deposited, and neither of them can put them out of sight against the wish of the other, as the driver can at any time disconnect the dumping-shelf H from the other operating mechanism; but it is the action of the passengcr (through the door B) that tilts the shelves. In any case the ticket remains exposed on the shelf H until the next inward swing of the door, and as much longer as the driver wishes. m is a spring secured to the case and the end of the arm M, and acting to restore the parts to the position shown in Fig. 1, and in whole lines in Fig. 2, when the hand is withdrawn from the door B, and the latter allowed to swing outward. The operatinglever, rods, 860., are placed in a side chamber, S, protected by a glass pane, T, to permit examination without handling.

I claim- 1, The combination of the door B, stud I), lever K L M,-rods N and O, and shelves G and H, all arranged and operated as described.

2. The combination of the door B, stud b, lever K L M, rod N, shelf Gr, rod 0, shelf H, and lever B, all substantially as set forth.

3. The inclined slide F, theshelf G, consisting of the parts 9 9, set angularly to each other, and the shelf H consisting of the three parts h h h, all arranged, relatively to each other, substantially as shown. 4

SAMUEL H.. LITTLE.

Witnesses SAML. KNIGHT, ROBERT BURNs. 

